Jewel Burks Solomon’s Collab Capital has closed a new $75M fund
Collab Capital announced today the close of a $75 million Fund II. Jewel Burks Solomon, who rose to prominence in Silicon Valley during her years running Google for Startups US, has just closed her second fund for her VC firm Collab Capital. Fund II is $75 million and includes heavyweight
Read moreChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims
Former OpenAI research leader Steven Adler published a new independent study that claims that, in certain scenarios, his former employer's AI models will go to great lengths to try to avoid being shut down.
Read moreAirPods Pro 3 could be on the way
Apple might be releasing the AirPods Pro 3 sooner than you think.
Read moreMeta’s V-JEPA 2 model teaches AI to understand its surroundings
Meta's V-JEPA 2 model is a "world model," referring to AI that is designed to understand its physical surroundings.
Read moreHow to secure your phone before attending a protest
Back in June 2020, when this article was first written, people were taking to the streets to organize for justice and protest against systemic racism and police brutality. There have been several other flashpoints for protests since then (for example, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade), but the
Read moreWhy you need diverse third-party data to deliver trusted AI solutions
Diverse, high-quality data is a prerequisite for reliable, effective, and ethical AI solutions.
Read moreSam Altman thinks AI will have ‘novel insights’ next year
In a new essay published Tuesday called “The Gentle Singularity,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared his latest vision for how AI will change the human experience over the next 15 years. The essay is a classic example of Altman’s futurism: hyping up the promise of AGI — and arguing that
Read moreProxima Fusion joins the club of well-funded nuclear contenders with €130M Series A
Commercial nuclear fusion power isn’t a reality yet. But venture capital is flowing into startups that promise that clean, safe, and virtually limitless energy is no longer just a distant dream. Most fusion companies that have raised over $100 million are based in the United States. Not Proxima Fusion, a
Read moreOpenAI’s open model is delayed
OpenAI was targeting an early summer release date for its open model, which is slated to have similar "reasoning" capabilities to OpenAI's o-series of models.
Read moreVijay Pande, founding partner of a16z bio and health strategy, steps down
Since its founding in 2014, a16z Bio+ Health has raised four funds of nearly $3 billion each, including a $1.5 billion fund that closed in 2022.
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